[Sigia-l] BBC

[prai at prady.com]

> What I'd like to know is why this bold move, and why now? Has there ever
> been a public discussion of this over there?

I doubt if there's anything 'bold' about it, however, we must talk about
it's 'usefullness'. A similar and 'bolder' attempt was made by MIT few
years back. They announced to put all their cources online for free.
Here's the link to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' pilot site -

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

In my humble opinion, this was bold and useful.

Pradyot Rai